Invariant

"Time can't just disappear, it's a universal invariant!""Not in this zip code."-"Pilot," The X-FilesAgent Sally Grissom was the pride and joy of the FBI's TTA program—until her partner, Nikhil Sharma, turned traitor and left her neck-deep in an official investigation into her own loyalties. Although her name was cleared, you don't have to be a particle physicist to tell when people have started treating you differently because of something like that (although she is, of course). So when Division Chief Esther Roberts summons her to a meeting, Sally can't help but feel that it's to punish her. When she's assigned to work with Anthony Partridge, a statistical analyst who's been chasing fairy tales ever since his wife's disappearance, she KNOWS that it was to punish her. (Or in other words, the ars PARADOXICA/X-Files oneshot that the world needed.)